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It seems rather unbelievable but the researchers sustain that this is the pure truth. It seems that one can live longer and have a better health just by mere diet changes that act on your youth gene, which everyone carries in their bodies.

Along centuries people have always searched to become immortals and have searched different solutions to obtain this thing. They have tried supposed magic potions meant to give youth forever to unique solutions found at the border between science and imagination.

For example, some studies show that the injections with monkey glandes can prolong our lives or even some hormones. More plausible results are offered by the science of medicine from the last decades – such as the injections or the improvement of living conditions. In the past century these two factors taken into consideration have prolonged life with 50%, from 50 years of age to 88 years of age. Unfortunately, longevity is not synonymous with health.

Growing old is a genetic process. Anyhow, it seems that some researchers have almost found a magical solution not just for a long life but for a healthy long life. One of them believes that the carbs that people consume from bananas, potatoes, bread, pastas, cookies or crackers, affect two essential genes from your body. Those are the ones that control youth and longevity. The first experiments were made on worms and they have proven to live 6 times longer than usual and then on mice and rats. Practically the American researcher has proven that growing old is not the result of a slow decaying but the effect of a process, which is controlled by the genes. This is the reason for which it can be slow down with medicines for example.

One of the methods they have used in the lab was to cut a big part of the daily normal calorie portion this enabled them to have a better control over the gene that sets the insulin from one’s body, and this at its turn had some other effects on a gene that is responsible for youthfulness. The second gene sends regenerating signals to the genes that are responsible with maintaining one’s youth. The antioxidants reserves from your body increase and therefore, they neutralize the bad free radicals. The last ones are responsible for an entire list of diseases, from cancer to Alzheimer.

The conclusion is that carbs make the bodies produce more insulin and that means the bad gene is more active which will impede the youth gene to work. To prove this theory they added a small quantity of glucose to the animals already tested and the effect was instant. The glucose blocked the youth genes and the animals immediately lost their health and died.

An interesting discovery was about the people that live in the north Ecuador. They seem to be immune to cancer. It was proven that they actually miss a part of the bad gene that makes insulin increase in their body. Their small appearance seems to be one more proof of this missing hormone, as this is a hormone for growing up. They are also protected of heart diseases, obesity and different cancers.

The conclusion may be that the high level of insulin in one’s body, due to the big carbs consumption, could be the bound between the things that rush our death. The studies in this regard are still at their beginnings, but some of the conclusions so far are rather logical.

Some experts have already begun to create medicines that control the two genes and reduce the level of insulin from one’s own body. While some believe that a better diet, with no carbs, with daily physical exercises will be able to increase the level of anti-oxidants from your body. They have a protective role and can fight the bad genes.

There are many questions as to whether eggs can or cannot be included in a healthy diet.

In the 70’s a theory appeared according to which eggs should be taken out from the diets that are low on cholesterol. Ever since then, the nutritionists keep contradicting one another about this issue, without having reached any conclusions. Among health nuts, this is an extremely delicate subject that should be avoided in polite conversations.

Nowadays, after many years of study it was proven that eggs do not affect at all the level of cholesterol from your blood and the heart rate either. In 1999 the Journal of the American Medical Association publishes the results of a study according to which any relation between the egg, the cholesterol or the heart diseases, do not exist. In this study 17000 doctors were involved, 80000 women and 37000 men.

Many people are raised in the belief that there is a bad connection between eggs and cholesterol, they should work on accepting the idea that there is actually no connection between those two. Moreover, the studies show that three of the countries with the biggest egg consumption, have the lowest rate of heart death from all the industrialized countries.

While one has one the freedom of consuming eggs, one should ask himself till where does this freedom extend? As what is too much surely hurts. Studies show that eggs are more dangerous when they are associated with other foods – bacon, red meat, milk, rather than through quantity.

The conclusions are that an egg a day is OK, but anyhow, not everyone can eat an egg each day. For example people that suffer from diabetes should not take this advice into consideration. Fortunately, eggs contribute to your food more though a nutritive value than a caloric one. An egg contains the richest source of quality proteins and almost all the essential vitamins and minerals for your body. They have a biological value of 93%. Comparative values have just the fish, the milk and the beef.

Specialists agree that the eggs have an exceptional nutritive density. What people have forgotten is the fact that the biggest part of the best in eggs is located in the egg yolks. Therefore, for a healthy lifestyle do not throw the egg yolks away, unless it is absolutely necessary.

A big egg contains 75 calories and 5 grams fat. Eggs contain the best mix of amino acids that human body needs to regenerate its own tissue. Moreover they have 30 vitamins and essential minerals. They have a bigger protein quality than the mother’s milk. They do not contain vitamin C and it is one of the few foods that contain vitamin D.

In a society where fast food has become something normal and many families eat as often as they can in town, rather than at home, a simple mix of ingredients from your diet will help you get the desired number of kilos.

Combining the medical and metabolic ingredients from the apple cider vinegar, honey and the green tea you will create a mix that will help you with your weight in due time, before increases almost become unstoppable.

Even though abstaining from junk food is the best prevention and cure for weight increase, there are many metabolic natural promoters that give you the impression of being full and they can be added to your diet in order to ensure a healthy weight loss. To make your own natural mix for weight loss one should mix 2 spoons of honey and 1 spoon of apple cider vinegar in a cup of fresh made green tea. For having the best results one should drink this mic six times per day.

Apple cider vinegar

The people that include this in their diet think that the persons that consume this ingredient in small quantities before meal diminish their appetite and also burn the fats at the same time. If you do not like the taste of this vinegar, try other vinegar or if you have stomach problems that determine avoiding vinegar, give it up.

Honey

The honey is an efficient generator of natural energy that reduces appetite. At the end of a meal one should consume a spoon of honey. This way one will feel as having eaten enough and no longer have the sensation of hungriness. One will help decreasing the calorie content of the meals. It is also the general solution for those occasions when one is interested in having a higher level of energy all through the day.

Green tea

Green tea, exactly as the black tea, contains caffeine; therefore it acts like a stimulant but as well like a help in reducing the appetite. It also contains an antioxidant, which is believed to increase your metabolism and not only decrease your appetite. Another content of the green tea could be associated with the preferential usage of fat as an energy source; therefore, it is associated with loss weight. Do not overdo with the green tea drinking, as it can have the caffeine side effects of overreacting – anxiety, headaches, vomiting.

Unfortunately many of today’s popular diets imply hidden risks for your health. One talks too little about the side effects and this is a reason why their risks are not fully known. Below you will see some of the less known risks of dieting.

May it treat about the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet or no carb diet the TV commercials and the libraries are full of books that promise you an iron clad health and a perfect look.

1. The diet without or with low content of carbs

What everyone knows about it is that by eating a lower quantity of carbs or none at all, one will easily lose the weight one so much hopes for, almost effortless. Anyhow, the person in questions loses one thing from the mind – the low-carb or no-carb diet implies almost always high doses of proteins. Despite this may prove to be a good thing in some situations – such as those of people practicing sports, they generally have a high content of fats.

Their accent is on pork and beef, fish, nuts and peanuts, or dairy products that mainly grow the fats dose from the organism, which postpones the main objective – that of losing weight. What one should do in order that this diet has some results is that one should make physical effort in parallel with the diet.

2. High risk of heart diseases – due to the high level of proteins

The specialists state that the diets that have a high level of proteins have as well high risks of heart diseases.

This is because they are usually rich in animal proteins, cholesterol and saturated fats. The concentration of bad cholesterol from the organism increases alarmingly, which leads to the main cause of heart diseases – the narrowed arteries. This is a reason why you should vary the type of proteins you consume – animal and as well vegetable.

3. Deficit of vitamins and minerals

The people that prefer fad diets – such as those that avoid some group of food, like carbs – tend to have big deficiencies in certain important food for your body, such as fibers, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Some of the diets that expose you to this are the diet with cabbage or the diet with grapefruit.

4. Excess of food from certain food groups

Some of the diets recommend the consumption of certain food in excessive style. This thing contradicts the warnings and the indications from the food field and they can lead to serious illnesses and lacks.

5. The Zone diet

This diet encourages the idea according to which the carbs cause too much insulin and this leads to high accumulation of fats. In reality keeping the Zone diet and the advice that the proteins stay at 30% of the calories you offer to your body, exposes one to a high risk. This can lead to obesity and often the obesity leads to diabetes.

6. The Atkins diet

This seems to be one of the most popular diets nowadays. However this has some risks as well. One should know that all the weight one loses while keeping the diet, may be possible to be gained again, after giving up at the diet.

The zero carbs’ lifestyle that promotes this diet is hard for your liver. It is forced to produce glucose. This will make your liver be drained with effort and kills your protein level to keep up with the diet. Once you return to your normal lifestyle, the protein layer will be remade and the weight will come back, exactly where it used to be.

7. The Weight Watchers

The Weight Watchers concentrates on a points system and advises the food is good or bad according to the points it has. This gradually reduces the calories and one can arrive at up to 1000 calories per day. This is a too low level from which one cannot obtain the necessary nutrients for your body.

8. Mario Dipasquale diet

This diet will expose your organism to osteoporosis. A high protein level diet may lead to a lack of calcium in your body, which can affect your bones and eventually lead to osteoporosis.

9. The vegetable diet

A diet that is mainly based on vegetables can lead to terrible cramps. The problem is that a normal lifestyle does not contain so many fruits and vegetables. This is why, all of a sudden this much will be too much for your body. Moreover, the cabbage and all the other vegetables that are related to it, increase the intestinal gases.

10. Gases in excess

Any of the food supplements block the starch from your body and create gases. This is an unpleasant situation for everyone as one may feel very uncomfortable due to this.